MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 123% UFO	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 124% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 102%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	119% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	87.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	21.8 GB free of 24 GB @ 3.3 GHz
Display	Цвета: 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit, Цвета: 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 10 '18 at 19:06
Run Duration	258 Seconds
Run User	UKR-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6900K-$120 6,755 User benchmarks, average bench 86% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 4.35 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Memory 98 1-Core 142 2-Core 284 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 569 8-Core 1,074 98% 821 Pts	64-Core 1521 94% 1521 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 98%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
AMD HD 7950-$290 33,820 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Gigabyte(1458 254C) 3GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 18.1.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	34.8% Below average	Lighting 45.3 Reflection 32.6 Parallax 56.5 37% 44.8 fps	MRender 30.7 Gravity 40.5 Splatting 40.1 31% 37.1 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 34.8% Great: 32%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 370F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2777 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	Lighting 162 Reflection 164 Parallax 142 132% 156 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 154 Splatting 120 108% 134 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 123GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10900 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 846 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 458 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7274680 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 307 (C2) HDA temperature 72 58 180389281820 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (E9) Unknown 100 100 21124 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10742 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9826 (F4) Unknown 100 100 111 (F5) Unknown 100 100 184 (F6) Unknown 100 100 7682432	87.9% Excellent	Read 525 Write 490 Mixed 505 113% 506 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 13.5 120% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 32.2 DQ Write 96.2 DQ Mixed 13.4 25% 47.3 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 111%
Corsair Force 3 60GB 4,789 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 30GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 -93071941265664 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1721 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1090 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 89 89 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22684 (EA) Unknown 0 0 20187 (F1) Unknown 0 0 20187 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10879	41.6% Average	Read 202 Write 78.7 Mixed 112 29% 131 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 78.7 4K Mixed 11.6 92% 38 MB/s	DQ Read 24.1 DQ Write 78.5 DQ Mixed 10.8 20% 37.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 52%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 314GB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 178 178 17193894100 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6528 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 535 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5008 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5008 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 193274708000 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	90.9% Outstanding	Read 157 Write 160 Mixed 153 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.18 103% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 266GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 69 (03) Spinup time 253 252 1250 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3362 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 18 18 60056 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3342 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1845 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3362 (C2) HDA temperature 120 90 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 202138 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	36.5% Below average	Read 61.2 Write 65.7 Mixed 56.5 46% 61.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.46 114% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 76%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 225GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 72 (03) Spinup time 173 173 17194287321 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1646 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 25068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1645 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2936 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2936 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 231929085979 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 432	85.1% Excellent	Read 152 Write 145 Mixed 129 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.23 86% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 108%
WD WD7500AAVS-00D7B0 750GB 1,285 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 87GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 156 5858 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6842 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 25 25 54922 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3019 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 704 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6812 (C2) HDA temperature 120 96 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 9 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	33.1% Below average	Read 52.5 Write 62.7 Mixed 63.7 45% 59.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.36 88% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 33.1% Great: 50%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3333 C16 3x8GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 3 of 8 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR4 3333 MHz clocked @ 3565 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	MC Read 50.1 MC Write 47.5 MC Mixed 37.9 129% 45.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 26.5 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 46.1 87% 46.1 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 106%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 79%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) - $223

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	325x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	179x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	110x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	172x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	115x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	84x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	40x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	20x

RAM
+ + 4x8GBUnknownBench 109%, 462 samples	30x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	22x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $769

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16